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Just a random thread to find out random out random NS'ers who have/are drinking underage. Who knows, if they're enough, we'll start a...erm...something. Yeah. Something.

I'm underage. I've had alcohol. it tasted like cough medicine and/or fermented rainwater. I don't see what the big deal is.

Just a random thread to find out random out random NS'ers who have/are drinking underage. Who knows, if they're enough, we'll start a...erm...something. Yeah. Something.
I'm drinking right now. Gin and tonic. Tasty.

I'm "overage"* now, but yea, I drank underage. So did everyone I know.




*well, in any country with a 'civilised' drinking age...

I'm drinking right now. Gin and tonic. Tasty.
Gimme!

...actually now that I think about it, I can make that here. *wanders off*

Oh, as to underage drinking, yes I did.

ive been drinking since i was fourteen. it's good to start young cuz it's a steep and long learning curve. having said that, i've not learned much apart from how best to ensure i hold my drink. which is all you really need to know. so scrap that. start young because it is fun and all you need to know is how to hold it :D

When I was underage, I overdrank.

I came of age, and then I drank.

Now I'm overage, and I underdrink.

ive been drinking since i was fourteen. it's good to start young cuz it's a steep and long learning curve. having said that, i've not learned much apart from how best to ensure i hold my drink. which is all you really need to know. so scrap that. start young because it is fun and all you need to know is how to hold it :D
Stem of the glass. The glass itself, being held, will warm up the wine. And that's vaguely bad.

I'm underage. I've had alcohol. it tasted like cough medicine and/or fermented rainwater. I don't see what the big deal is.

Because of the hypocrits in my nation who criticize people for drinking underage and then buy 80% alcohol liquor for their 4 year old children.

Free the soul dude...free the soul...

I put everything because I am evil like that. :D

Stem of the glass. The glass itself, being held, will warm up the wine. And that's vaguely bad.

nonononono, not that sort of holding :D. just make sure you eat before you go out. not too much inflatable carbs (especially if you're drinking beer), a fair amount of fats. and have the occasional glass of water so you don't intoxicate yourself, saves you from a hangover too (not that i often remember this one, or the other one come to think of it. but at least i know they are good things to do *nods*). oh and stock up on aspririn :)

I've drunk since I was 15, first went to the pub at 16. No real problems with being ID'd, save at the very beginning.

I am not one for getting drunk, but I do have a drink with friends every so often. I think it is very important to draw a distinction between responsible drinking and overindulging. A cousin of my father and her husband were killed exactly a week after their wedding by a drunk driver, so I never ever, ever condone drinking and driving (Not that I condoned it before the catastrophe, but it is personal now).

Anyay, to return to the drinking-age topic... I recall an experiment I did back when I was underage... I wanted to feel grown up, so naturally the things that came to my mind were the things that are forbidden to youth: Alcoholic drinks. One night when nobody was around, I poured myself some of my parents' rum. I had never been observant to the fact that they usually mixed it... I drank a bit, straight, but it was only a tiny mouthful since the stuff burned. It was so revolting, I stayed away from alcohol until well after I was old enough to have it legally.

I support age restrictions on alcohol; I think it should be reserved for people who have finished puberty. The legal age in my jurisdiction is 19, but across a border a kilometer or two from here it is 18. I suppose somewhere around those ages is a good enough limit.



Incidentally, I usually stick to beer nowadays, but when I go for harder stuff I prefer it straight rather than mixed, as I feel that makes it easier for me to guage how much I have had and when I have reached my limit.

I am not one for getting drunk, but I do have a drink with friends every so often. I think it is very important to draw a distinction between responsible drinking and overindulging. A cousin of my father and her husband were killed exactly a week after their wedding by a drunk driver, so I never ever, ever condone drinking and driving (Not that I condoned it before the catastrophe, but it is personal now).

Anyay, to return to the drinking-age topic... I recall an experiment I did back when I was underage... I wanted to feel grown up, so naturally the thing that came to my mind were the things that are forbidden to youth: Alcoholic drinks. One night when nobody was around, I poured myself some of my parents' rum. I had never been observant to the fact that they usually mixed it... I drank a bit, straight, but it was only a tiny mouthful since the stuff burned. It was so revolting, I stayed away from alcohol until well after I was old enough to have it legally.

I support age restrictions on alcohol; I think it should be reserved for people who have finished puberty. The legal age in my jurisdiction is 19, but across a border a kilometer or two from here it is 18. I suppose somewhere around those ages is a good enough limit.



Incidentally, I usually stick to beer nowadays, but when I go for harder stuff I prefer it straight rather than mixed, as I feel that makes it easier for me to guage how much I have had and when I have reached my limit.

that's probably a good way to go about drinking. however, i never got the urge or even the idea to raid my parents drinks cabinet till after i got the thirst. plus i've always been one to want, nay demand, that i try new things and even if i don't like it i'll keep doing it til i do, something to do with my addictive personallity i suppose :D.

My stolichnaya with tonic water and lime is slipping down just fine right now!!

Just out of curiousity, have any of you been pressured by your parents to drink? Mine kept nagging me about not drinking after I turned of age until I finally did.

On a half-related note, my Mom once laced my juice with schnapps so she could beat me in a family game of Risk (After I was of age, of course). I believe they used alcohol as a teething medication when my siblings and I were kids, too, but that does not irk me half as much as the deliberate and underhanded drink-spiking.

My stolichnaya with tonic water and lime is slipping down just fine right now!!
stoly is the best great. wish i could afford it. co-op's own anything for me. but, 40% is 40% at the end of the day, right?

I'm 23 and I thoroughly enjoy drinking, in fact I'm at a party right now and have been drinking for quite a while now. What was the actual point of this thread?

Just out of curiousity, have any of you been pressured by your parents to drink? Mine kept nagging me about not drinking after I turned of age until I finally did.

On a half-related note, my Mom once laced my juice with schnapps so she could beat me in a family game of Risk (After I was of age, of course). I believe they used alcohol as a teething medication when my siblings and I were kids, too, but that does not irk me half as much as the deliberate and underhanded drink-spiking.

hahaha! that's funny (the risk thingy)! my parents gave me whisky and milk as a teething remedy. i'm not aware of them spiking my drink in an underhand way though. to be honest i'd still find it amuzing if they did since i'd do the same to them if i or they had an inclination to cheat. for some reason i have grown up with a complete inability to cheat at boardgames. i've no problem with cheating at other things, like exams, but boardgames is another matter, isn't that odd?

Meh, i've been drinking since I was 15. Of course, by America's puritan standards i'm still underage. Heh.

I'm 23 and I thoroughly enjoy drinking, in fact I'm at a party right now and have been drinking for quite a while now. What was the actual point of this thread?

Must be some party if you have to post on NSG for entertainment. ;)

Must be some party if you have to post on NSG for entertainment. ;)

now that's what i was thinking! if i could even see computer during a party it would be a forgettable one.

Underage. Don't drink. Wouldn't drink if you payed me all of Bill Gates' fortune to drink.

*shudder*

now that's what i was thinking! if i could even see computer during a party it would be a forgettable one.

not that internet people are frogettable of course. it's just the litmus test for a good party in my experience is one i don't remember but am infinitely amused by tales of what i did at it. i know that sentence is not grammatically perfec, but i have stolen all of my flatmete's alcohol before typing this.

Must be some party if you have to post on NSG for entertainment. ;)

I'm running the music from a laptop, it means that I can multitask :p

not that internet people are frogettable of course. it's just the litmus test for a good party in my experience is one i don't remember but am infinitely amused by tales of what i did at it. i know that sentence is not grammatically perfec, but i have stolen all of my flatmete's alcohol before typing this.

Too true!

I'm running the music from a laptop, it means that I can multitask :p

Why multitask on NSG? I'd be multitasking between music and booze. :p

Or maybe hiding blow up dolls in cupboards or leaving a lump of huitlacoche (http://www.boingboing.net/images/_art_huitlacoche_full_can_branded.jpg) in the toilet bowl (i'm so doing that one day...).

:)

Underage. Don't drink. Wouldn't drink if you payed me all of Bill Gates' fortune to drink.

*shudder*

you won't know til you've tried. cum'om, the worst human emotion ever is regret, and honest i won't let you regret it, just one beer to start with, you'll love it.

*waves beer hiding all sorts of dangerous and addictive narcotics behind back*

you won't know til you've tried. cum'om, the worst human emotion ever is regret, and honest i won't let you regret it, just one beer to start with, you'll love it.

*waves beer hiding all sorts of dangerous and addictive narcotics behind back*

:eek:

You wouldn't beleive how many people have tried the first part on me. Apparently not drinking is a sin greater than any other.

Unless you're with Mormons. That might be the only case where I would want to be drunk, though, so I can't say that works.

you won't know til you've tried. cum'om, the worst human emotion ever is regret, and honest i won't let you regret it, just one beer to start with, you'll love it.

*waves beer hiding all sorts of dangerous and addictive narcotics behind back*

*runs up from behind and steals drugs*

Wheee!!!

[QUOTE=Kanabia;11899480]Too true!
[QUOTE]
i only wish the misplellings were intentional. i really tried you know!

bwahahahahahaa!!!!11!!1!!!

Ah it's good for 'em! Here Billy, try some of this.

Why multitask on NSG? I'd be multitasking between music and booze. :p

Or maybe hiding blow up dolls in cupboards or leaving a lump of huitlacoche (http://www.boingboing.net/images/_art_huitlacoche_full_can_branded.jpg) in the toilet bowl (i'm so doing that one day...).

:)

It's the class a's, I'm running at a massivly overclocked speed at the moment.

I'm underage, I used to drink some, but I quit cause I have better ways of hanging out with my friends.

I used to drink underage, now I'm of age and don't drink...

Until it's legalized, I'll smoke chronic illegally, and then... well... legally? :D

*runs up from behind and steals drugs*

Wheee!!!

you know, i had a really funny response to this and then damn jolt dies while it was posting. i have no memory so i don't know how it went. i hate jolt. i already had one bottle of wine, now i want another. stupid jolt.

Pfff... Depressants.

Underage and don't drink. Don't plan to, save maybe a time or two, just to try it. Haven't gotten around to it at this point, the situation is never right.

Generally, I don't like depressants of any kind.

The other two generally recognized classifications of recreational drugs, though...

Pfff... Depressants.

Underage and don't drink. Don't plan to, save maybe a time or two, just to try it. Haven't gotten around to it at this point, the situation is never right.

Generally, I don't like depressants of any kind.

The other two generally recognized classifications of recreational drugs, though...
"I haven't tried it, but it's obviously rubbish".

Nice one.

"I haven't tried it, but it's obviously rubbish".

Nice one.

I've experienced other depressants. As a rule, I don't like them. Alcohol is a depressant. It follows I won't be terribly thrilled by it. I will try it, but it's not a high priority.

Action and consequences. Thats how it works.

I've experienced other depressants. As a rule, I don't like them. Alcohol is a depressant. It follows I won't be terribly thrilled by it. I will try it, but it's not a high priority.

the amount of calories in alcohol tend to counteract the depressants unless you're already depressed (in which case you probably shouldn't be doing drugs anyway). what you get then us a fuzzy-good, confident feeling.

I'm underage. I have a small glass of wine at dinner on rare occasion, and my parents are fine with that. Besides that, except for one time when my friend got me to split quite a bit of tequila with him, I don't drink.

I'm 17 and a half, and I drink when I want to. I disagree with Australian law on drinking; I much prefer the German law. If you're not developed enough to drink beer by 16, you'll never be.

"I haven't tried it, but it's obviously rubbish".

Nice one.

I've always thought so.

Why? Do you have a problem with that kind of lifestyle?

the amount of calories in alcohol tend to counteract the depressants

How does this work now?

unless you're already depressed

No problems there.

How does this work now?

i dunno, i'm probably making it up, but i'm sure i read somewhere that alcohol is both a stimulant and a depressant. maybe that was nicotine *shrugs*. alcohol is better than nicotine anyway.

No problems there.

good for you :)

I've drunk since I was 15, first went to the pub at 16. No real problems with being ID'd, save at the very beginning.

I think European countries where the Drinking age is 16 are far smarter than those where it's higher. Just about everyone starts at that age anyway, and if it's legal, the mystique of the forbidden is dissipated.

i dunno, i'm probably making it up, but i'm sure i read somewhere that alcohol is both a stimulant and a depressant. maybe that was nicotine *shrugs*. alcohol is better than nicotine anyway.

In very low doses (single serving, essentially, perhaps less. One beer, glass of wine, shot, etc., depends on the person) it is a very mild stimulant. Anything higher and it's depressant effects take over.

Nicotine is purely stimulant, at first, then, once some sort of dependency sets in, it grants depressant effects after intake (after not having had it for a bit).

You may be thinking of THC as well, as it acts, to some degree, as a psychedelic, stimulant, and depressant, among it's other effects.

Kratom as well, I believe, falls under the category of stimulant and depressant, though I highly doubt it's what you were talking about.

Betel nut as well, but that's similarly unknown to the general populace.

As well as muscarine.

Also, most psychedelics (that you'd commonly think of, like mushrooms, LSD, mescaline(as well as most new synthetic psychedelics that I can think of)) have the potential to act as both, though stimulant effects are tremendously prevalent over any depressant effects.

Take your pick. :D

good for you :)

Thanks. :)

nonononono, not that sort of holding :D. just make sure you eat before you go out. not too much inflatable carbs (especially if you're drinking beer), a fair amount of fats. and have the occasional glass of water so you don't intoxicate yourself, saves you from a hangover too (not that i often remember this one, or the other one come to think of it. but at least i know they are good things to do *nods*). oh and stock up on aspririn :)
I never did that. I go out on an empty stomach, have 9-12 mixed drinks in 2-3 hours. Go out to eat at Denny's when all the bars closed. Rarely had hangovers, though I'd feel a little drug out the next day.
Now I rarely have more than 2 or 3 drinks. A little older now, it takes longer to recover.
By time I was 10 my parents would let me have a glass of wine at parties. From the time I was 14 my dad and step-mom would take me and my 12 year old step-sister out for mixed drinks. When I was 17 my step-mom would send me in to buy the booze.
I have no idea why I'm not an alchoholic. Even when I was drinking heavily, I never seemed to get addicted. To booze or any of the other assorted chemicals I was imbibing. I guess the variety kept me from getting addicted to any one thing.

I never did that. I go out on an empty stomach, have 9-12 mixed drinks in 2-3 hours. Go out to eat at Denny's when all the bars closed. Rarely had hangovers, though I'd feel a little drug out the next day.
Now I rarely have more than 2 or 3 drinks. A little older now, it takes longer to recover.
By time I was 10 my parents would let me have a glass of wine at parties. From the time I was 14 my dad and step-mom would take me and my 12 year old step-sister out for mixed drinks. When I was 17 my step-mom would send me in to buy the booze.
I have no idea why I'm not an alchoholic. Even when I was drinking heavily, I never seemed to get addicted. To booze or any of the other assorted chemicals I was imbibing. I guess the variety kept me from getting addicted to any one thing.

some people are lucky in that they don't seem to get addicted to stuff. i don't think it's ever been properly explained. i know i get dependent on stuff really quickly. it might be genetic since my mum is the same. my parents used to give me wine or sherry if we went to parties or if they had parties and wanted me out of the way when i was little. i don't think mixing drinks has anything to do with dependency though because i mix drinks far more than anyone else i know, like i'll spend 60 quid on a night out and not have the same drink twice.

i don't think mixing drinks has anything to do with dependency though because i mix drinks far more than anyone else i know, like i'll spend 60 quid on a night out and not have the same drink twice.I mean that sometimes I'd eat hash, sometimes drop acid, sometimes take X or sometimes drink. So it might be weeks between taking the same substance again. Though alchohol and meth were my favorites.
I haven't done any of the illegals for several years, though.

I mean that sometimes I'd eat hash, sometimes drop acid, sometimes take X or sometimes drink. So it might be weeks between taking the same substance again. Though alchohol and meth were my favorites.
I haven't done any of the illegals for several years, though.

ah, well i not done any cocktails or anything. most i've had is mushrooms and skunk. i'm passed the stage where i want to experiment with everything, perhaps fortunately i was living on a tiny island then where the most you could get was hash soaked in diesel or lethal heroin (if you could afford th £80 hit). by the time i got to uni i settled into using skunk, then fucked myself up with too much of that so i went back to drinking.

I think 21 is a idiotic drinking age. I love sake and Japanese beer. Nothing better than sake bombs :p

The ironic thing is that I don't drink (I can't stand the stuff) and I'm from the stereotypically drunkest country in Europe. The city I live in is overrun with drunk idiots every weekend. It's sad, not funny.

But to say that I never consumed alcohol underage would be a lie. My parents used to give me some Pisang in my orange juice every now and then when I was a kid. I guess it's their laid-back attitude to drinking that made me want to refuse to drink in the first place.

There's nothing wrong with drinking alcohol, but living in a culture where getting drunk in public is the norm puts some people off.

Yeah I drank underage but as of last month I'm overage!

Alcohol has been my predominate social lubricant since the age of 15. I don't talk to (new) people unless I'm at least slightly drunk.

To quote Homer Simpson;

"Alcohol is a way of life, and its my way of life damnit!"

I drank much more when i was underage than now. I basically started drinking at 14/15 and stopped at 17. Now I just smokes the reefer. Ahhhh.

The only alcohol I've ever had was the sip of wine at church as part of communion. Other than that, I don't drink anything with alcohol in it.

The only alcohol I've ever had was the sip of wine at church as part of communion. Other than that, I don't drink anything with alcohol in it.
No? You're missing out. I've been drinking ginger beer since the age of about 8.

No? You're missing out. I've been drinking ginger beer since the age of about 8.

Oh well. I don't want to drink, since I'm underage. I don't think I will after I turn 21, either.

I have been drinking since I was 15. This is the norm in Ireland unfortunately and I can't see it changing in the near future...

I started drinking around 13 or so. But I never got all that drunk until 16, at which point I felt it would be smart to climb along the balconies from one hotel room to the next on the fifth floor. Fortunately I did not slip and fall to my death, allowing me to drink more :)

I prefer weed to alcohol.

The poll is confusing, in Britain from the age of 6 you can drink alcohol in unlicensed premesis under adult supervision or something.

In Texas at the time I was growing up, if you were with a parent or spouse you could drink at any age.

I used to drink a lot when I was underage, now that I can drink I choose not to.

*is drunk right now*

I'm 16 now, I had by first beer at 12 (rugby tour, 1 pint a night) started drinking once a week at 14 (Rugby...again) and first got well and truely wnkered at 15 (Rugby tour....see a connection here?). NAyway, it ahsn't harmed me, I;m not an alcholic, I have about a pint a week, most weeks and I don't become violent or any of that crap. In fatc it seems to be odler people, people who don't drink when there udnerage who become like that becuase they don't know how to handle it.

Drinking is a learning curve. You won't go wrong if you follow it slowly, step by step, but if you suddenly become 18 and start drinking you'll be in a bad way.

I "drank" when I was underage, which is to say that I would have a mug of wassail with rum every Christmas, and possibly a sip of wine or Bailey's every few months in between. I never drank more than that until I was in my 20's. (I still don't drink terribly much - one or two small drinks per week is probably about average for me.)

I drank underage, started about 15ish which was late compared to my friends.

I've drunk since I was 15, first went to the pub at 16. No real problems with being ID'd, save at the very beginning.

Lucky :( I'm 21 in just over a month, and I get ID'd everywhere.

there is no "drinking age" in Poland. only a minimum age for buying alcohol.

Oh well. I don't want to drink, since I'm underage. I don't think I will after I turn 21, either.

You don't want to drink ONLY because you are underage?

You don't want to drink ONLY because you are underage?

No, that's not the only reason, but it is one reason.

Alcohol has been my predominate social lubricant since the age of 15. I don't talk to (new) people unless I'm at least slightly drunk.

I'm the same way. In fact I'm not a big fan of talking to anyone unless I've had at least a little to drink. But once I've started drinking, watch out, I'm everyone's best friend:p

No, that's not the only reason, but it is one reason.

do you have other reasons?

Underage drinking is unnecessarily vilified. Amongst the more responsible, mature and civilised of teens, it is a social lubricant. It is only when degenerate chavs, wiggas and gangsta kids drink underage, or, for that matter, legally drink, that problems arise.

I started drinking when I was 17, so I've never been drunk under age.

do you have other reasons?

Yes, I do.

I'm underage. I have a small glass of wine at dinner on rare occasion, and my parents are fine with that. Besides that, except for one time when my friend got me to split quite a bit of tequila with him, I don't drink.

I'm what my health class calls a "problem drinker", being thrown out of your home, having your parents divorce, and deal with a part-time job all at once isn't fun until you get wasted with your friends on a Saturday night and order stuff on the internet which you obviously can't pay for.

I live in a major Division I university town. I live right downtown, with the uni campus literally at my door. The major downtown section is 8 blocks long & 1 block wide; it is equal to 1.35 km by 200 meters, or 4500 feet by 550 feet. I have attached a map image highlighting it below:

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Notice the area is bounded in blue. Within that area are TWENTY-SEVEN BARS.

Again: TWENTY-SEVEN BARS.

Those are JUST the ones within the downtown area. They do NOT count the ones in other areas of town. There are three bars directly across the street from my flat; there are 11 in the 1-block wide radius from my door.

Every weekend, the students come out & they trawl the town. "Bar tours" are common, where they start early at night at one end & drink their way to the other./ They scream. They yell. They pass out in doorways, piss behind dumpsters...& often the reverse of that as well. Football weekends are even worse; home games mean that literally thousands of alumi descend upon the town like locusts & try to relive their "glory days."

The ambulance units are constantly on call for alcohol-related incidents, including severe alcohol poisoning. I have been legal to drink for a decade, look older, yet I still get carded because of the massive underage drinking problem here. Tonight, I dread walking home from the lab because I know what I will have to endure to do so.

So yes, I can say I've seen the worst of it & I would gladly show it to nayone who thinks that it can't be a problem.

I live in a major Division I university town. I live right downtown, with the uni campus literally at my door. The major downtown section is 8 blocks long & 1 block wide; it is equal to 1.35 km by 200 meters, or 4500 feet by 550 feet. I have attached a map image highlighting it below:

59304

Notice the area is bounded in blue. Within that area are TWENTY-SEVEN BARS.

Again: TWENTY-SEVEN BARS.

Those are JUST the ones within the downtown area. They do NOT count the ones in other areas of town. There are three bars directly across the street from my flat; there are 11 in the 1-block wide radius from my door.

Every weekend, the students come out & they trawl the town. "Bar tours" are common, where they start early at night at one end & drink their way to the other./ They scream. They yell. They pass out in doorways, piss behind dumpsters...& often the reverse of that as well. Football weekends are even worse; home games mean that literally thousands of alumi descend upon the town like locusts & try to relive their "glory days."

The ambulance units are constantly on call for alcohol-related incidents, including severe alcohol poisoning. I have been legal to drink for a decade, look older, yet I still get carded because of the massive underage drinking problem here. Tonight, I dread walking home from the lab because I know what I will have to endure to do so.

So yes, I can say I've seen the worst of it & I would gladly show it to nayone who thinks that it can't be a problem.

Penn State, eh?

Sadly, yes. Perhaps I should've done more research before moving here.

Sadly, yes. Perhaps I should've done more research before moving here.

:p

Tis a party school!

The ironic thing is that I don't drink (I can't stand the stuff) and I'm from the stereotypically drunkest country in Europe.

You're Russian now? ;)

I drank much more when i was underage than now. I basically started drinking at 14/15 and stopped at 17. Now I just smokes the reefer. Ahhhh.

That's the way I do it. :D

[QUOTE=Yootopia;11899065]I'm drinking right now. Gin and tonic. Tasty.[/QUOT

rolling rock and captain morgan...chilled..

but i am a fucking drunk..lol

but i dont care,my opinions are discounted and tossed aside cause i am supposedly a drunk.

or i i just love drinking myself into a stupor...due to life....single dad of a kid in law school and one going to iraq...
my bad.

must suck being at home with mommy and daddy paying the bills..wish i was there.